Bilena Dabalen recently earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Brown University. During her time as a research assistant, she focused on inequities in education and the history of the for-profit sector in American K-12 education, collecting information on standardized testing and the textbook industry. Bilena is interested in social and urban policy and hopes to work on issues surrounding poverty, incarceration, and housing. She is currently learning Spanish and is proficient in the programming language Stata. She is from Washington, DC.